Tulips (film)

:"This is the article about the 1981 film, "Tulips"; for other uses, see Tulip (disambiguation) "

Infobox film
name = Tulips


caption = Tulips poster
director = Rex Bromfield, Mark Warren, Al Waxman
producer = John B. Bennett
Don Carmody
writer = Gabe Kaplan, Henry Olek, Al Waxman
starring = Gabe Kaplan
Bernadette Peters
Henry Gibson
Al Waxman
music = Edward Karam
cinematography = Francois Protat
editing = Alan Collins, Yurij Luhovy
distributor = - USA -
AVCO Embassy Pictures
- Canada -
Astral Films
released = October, 1981
runtime = 93 min.
country = Canada/USA
awards =
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
amg_id =
imdb_id = 0083236

"Tulips" is a 1981 comedy-drama movie directed by Rex Bromfield, Mark Warren, and Al Waxman, and starring Gabe Kaplan and Bernadette Peters.

ummary

Leland Irving (Gabe Kaplan) is depressed and lonely but his attempts at suicide are unsuccessful. He hires a professional hit man (Maurice Avocado, played by Henry Gibson) to kill him; Avocado will use the code word "Tulips" when the time is at hand. While awaiting his fate, Leland comes across a woman--Rutanya Wallace (Bernadette Peters)--who is attempting suicide, and saves her. Rutanya is suffering from being rejected by a lover, but is charmingly unconventional and outgoing, the opposite of Leland's introvert. Their lives become inter-twined, and although wary and battling initially, they fall in love and marry.

However, now that they have found each other, they must call off the hit by Avocado, and complications arise. When Avocado will not agree to calling off the Hit, Leland and Rutanya desperately try to obtain guns, etc., to attempt to kill the killer. In the end, no one dies.

In one of the early scenes of their courtship, Leland plays the tuba while Rutanya sings "Sidewalks of New York". (Bernadette Peters, playing Rutanya, has had a long career as a singer as well as an actress.)

Cast

*Gabe Kaplan — Leland Irving
*Bernadette Peters — Rutanya Wallace
*Henry Gibson — Maurice Avocado
*Al Waxman — Bert Irving
*Dave Boxer — Dr. Carl Walburn

External links

* http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083236/ Tulips at Internet Movie Database

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